Liturgy Here’s to the God of the wild and untamedHere’s to the animals that bat their wingsAnd test their speed in freedomHere’s to nature as our parish,The beauty of the morning lightThe breeze moving through the treesMay all beings know freedomMay we be stewards of dreams that balloon so much they take up infinitespaceMay the words we speak bring peace […]
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Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.10.20
Liturgy God of spiritual orphans and seekers, comfort our hearts.Like the disciples before us, we often wrestlewith the confusing ache of your absence.After 2000 years of ascension, we yearn for a voicethat reaches through clouds to speak again.Once a man from Nazareth who healed, wept, and laughed,we’ve molded you into a thousand different dogmas for our own motives.Free us to […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.10.13
Liturgy Lord, you are your wordYou are memory when ours failsA deep breath when ours grows shallowAn anchor when we’re unmooredWe lose confidence in you and in ourselvesThat our projects will never completeOur relationships never mendedBut Lord you are sage, mentor, carpenter, friendYou prepare for each harvest,Knowing the plant and the seasonThe days grow shorter to have the long June […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.10.06
Liturgy Wherever you have come from to be here today,dearly beloved,no matter how frayed or ragged you feel,you are held together by a divineand reconciling love.Along with Saint Patrick, Lord, we remind ourselves of your presence:“Christ with me,Christ before me,Christ behind me,Christ in me,Christ beneath me,Christ above me,Christ when I lie down,Christ when I arise.”God, may our vision be drawn […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.09.29
Liturgy Heavenly Parent, Lord Above,Where do we go to belong to you?Our identities sit like a stone in the sand,Ever shifting, always tumbling,Sinking amidst a world caught in conceit.We want our hearts to belong to you,We want our souls to sing your name.Jesus Christ, Savior to all,How do we embody your grace?We seek out justice but lack the heavenly altitude […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.09.22
Liturgy The harvest moon welcomes us into a new season.Summer seeds grow to maturityand slow but steady change unfolds,with a new world dawning before our eyes.Divine Sower, you remind us that the best workcomes not through careless and urgent hands,but slow labor rooted in patient love.We hope for a day when all can feasttogether at your table,when the sweat of […]
Liturgy, Reflection, & Benediction 2024.09.15
Liturgy We come in need of silence.For we are filled with a plethora of words.They are bandied about in effortsTo bully us and seduce us and silence us.We have been reminded this weekOf how words both build and burn.We come in need of silence,For in it we pause and reflect and breathe.We consider which words we want to let in.We […]